#wrong thing

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#just #people #report #right #right thing

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. ↗

— Tony Blair

#do the right thing #lose #right #right thing #sometimes

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#any #decision #moment #next #nothing

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#hope #love #thing #waiting #would

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#constantly #counteract #education #generations #inexorable

Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#everybody #guy #much #says #thing

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#make #order #right #right thing #sense

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#i #my soul #said #soul #still

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#i #ironies #life #moment #right

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#become #believe #credulous #danger #enough